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Intergenerational persistence of health : evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh; Nahlen, Bernard - 2023

Using nationally representative data, we estimate intergenerational persistence in health in India. Results from the instrumental variable method show that children of anemic mothers are more likely to be anemic, with an intergenerational health correlation of 0.26. Results are robust to the...

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Does adolescence anemia persist over a woman's life cycle? : evidence from the Indonesian Family Life Survey

Satriawan, Elan; Shrestha, Ranjan; Witoelar, Firman; … - 2023

We study the determinants of hemoglobin concentration in women throughout their life cycle and ask whether anemia … find that although about 30% of our sample was anemic during a given survey wave, 63% experienced anemia at least once over … the four survey waves, suggesting a high burden of anemia among Indonesian women. Furthermore, the high prevalence of …

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Intergenerational persistence of health : evidence from India

Kumar, Santosh; Nahlen, Bernard - In: Economics letters 224 (2023), pp. 1-5

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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy

Klasen, Stephan - 2007

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition, and child mortality in developing countries. While there is, as expected, a close aggregate correlation between these measures of deprivation, the measures generate some...

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The Double African Paradox: What does selective mortality tell us?

Rouanet, Léa - 2011

We study the relationship between height stature and child mortality in West Africa. This is motivated by two things: understanding the determinants of height, widely used health indicator, and explaining the « double African paradox ». This paradox comes from the fact that Africans are...

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Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error

Cawley, John; Choi, Anna - 2015

One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the...

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Non-contributory pensions

Galiani, Sebastián; Gertler, Paul; Bando, Rosangela - 2014

The creation of non-contributory pension schemes is becoming increasingly common as countries struggle to reduce poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural adults over 70 years of age-- we evaluate the effects of...

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Does High Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2013

This study explores the hypothesis that high home-ownership damages the labor market. We show that rises in the home-ownership rate in a U.S. state are a precursor to eventual sharp rises in unemployment in that state. The elasticity exceeds unity: a doubling of the rate of home-ownership in a...

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Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes

Jans, Jenny; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2014

On normal days, the temperature decreases with altitude, allowing air pollutants to rise and disperse. During inversion episodes, a warmer air layer at higher altitude traps pollutants close to the ground. We show how readily available NASA satellite data on vertical temperature profiles can be...

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Testing a conditional cash transfer program in the US: The effects of the family rewards program in New York City

Miller, Cynthia; Riccio, James; Verma, Nandita; Nuñez, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29

Family Rewards represents the first test of a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program in the U.S., offering families incentives for children's education, family preventive health care and parents' work and training. Using a randomized controlled trial, we find that the program led to substantial...

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